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		<title>Australia is doing it, why can&#8217;t we?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peer Abuse at work continues to be an underappreciated issue in our nation as we continue to enable this problem in our companies and organizations. However, things “down under” seem to be taking a more serious look at this problem.
A recent court decision in Hawthorn, Australia ordered a company, Café Vamp, to pay $335,000 in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123780</link>
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		<title>Apple iPad – Build Your Own For $15 + Tip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was somewhat amused by the hoopla that surrounded Apple Computers announcement of their next killer device the iPad. I have to admit that I can see little of interest for me in such a device. Tablet PC&#8217;s in my opinion are at best overpriced and rather clumsy devices.  However I am sure that Apple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123779</link>
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		<title>Targeted Injection Attacks on the Rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
In the latter half of 2009, criminal hackers went from mass SQL injection campaigns to targeted attacks. SQL is abbreviation of Structured Query Language. Pronounced  ”Ess Que El” or ”Sequel”. The attackers shift in strategy focused on targeting high-profile websites, concluded Websense&#8217;s State of Internet Security report for the third [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123775</link>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings – More Tapes From The Jail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We actually were expecting some sound files of Donna Brock to be released. That did not happen. Sources close to the investigation are telling us that her phone conversations are still being redacted. Hmmm ones has to wonder what those redactions might be.
However we did get two audio files of a rather upset Ronald Cummings. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123774</link>
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		<title>SKY Investigates: New Jail Audio&#8230;Ron Cummings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from TJ Hart -  Jan Barrett
News Talk 97.3 The Sky has been waiting all day for the &#8220;go&#8221; sign from the St. Johns County Jail to pick up the reacted audio of Donna Brock, one of five people who were arrested on drug trafficking charges on January 20, 2010 in Putnam and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 &#8220;Poverty&#8221; Olympics Held in Vancouver</title>
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As the torch for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic games approaches Vancouver after being carried across Canada, the torch for a parallel games arrived yesterday.  It was the torch for the 2010 Poverty Olympics, carried from city to city across British Columbia.  It&#8217;s arrival was cheered by about 500 people packed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worldwide services to mark Autism Sunday on 14th February</title>
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Services in many nations will be held to mark the first major disability event in the calendar - Autism Sunday on 14th February. Autism campaigners have used the occasion to lobby and campaign on the issues concerned with autism and Asperger&#8217;s Syndrome around the world. They are also set to wear autism awareness ribbons on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123769</link>
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		<title>Superbowl – Who Cares – The Who Does!</title>
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I have to admit that I know almost nothing about football. It seems to mostly be long periods of doing nothing interspersed with 5 seconds of grown men wearing helmets, armor and lord knows what else reenacting some ancient battle ritual.
My wife is a Saints fan, and even though I am allowed TV privileges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americas Cup 33 – Race One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3:00am – Well I dragged myself out of bed to watch what likely will be the most boring Americas Cup of all time. An ostentatious example of too much money and no sense. In the grand tradition of the AC the first race is under a postponement. Of course one might be tempted to ask [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123767</link>
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		<title>THE GLASS ONION BAND IN CONCERT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LAKE OSPREY VILLAGE CABARET-LAKEWOOD RANCH, FL  2-6-10
THE GLASS ONION BAND IN CONCERT
BEATLE AUCTION PLANNED FOR SPRING
This is a guest article by John Cherry the author of Better Than Lennon, a book that explores who was the better musician John Lennon or Paul McCartney - Simon 

From 8-11 on the night of February 6th, Beatle tribute [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123764</link>
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		<title>A fanciful conversation with President Reagan</title>
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This weekend we celebrate Ronald Reagan’s 99th birthday.  The 40th President of the United States would no doubt be aghast at the gymnastics in Washington: Democrats stepping over each other to make government bigger. Twenty years after Reagan left office, America has seen diametric reversal of the philosophy he held dear, that smaller [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123766</link>
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		<title>Jersey City Trumps Jersey Shore: U.S. v. Leona Beldini</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jersey Shore? Fuhgeddaboudit. Jersey City is the gem of reality TV. Shore&#160;is&#160;MTV. Jersey City is FBI. Like, how real is that? Killer videos of pols talking trash and passing cash have been unspooling in federal court in Newark at the trial of Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini. Beldini was busted last Summer in an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123765</link>
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		<title>Drugs In America – A BNN Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drugs have long been part of our culture, many if not all ancient civilizations used them in some way. Hallucinogenic mushrooms, Cacao leaves, the opium poppy, and many other variations. Their use though was usually linked to religious rituals rather than recreation. The use of narcotics is thousands of years old. Todays world is different, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123763</link>
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		<title>Where is HaLeigh? One Year Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from TJ Hart - Jan Barrett
February 10, 2009 was early morning when 5-year-old HaLeigh Cummings of Satsuma, FL was discovered missing from her home at Hermit&#8217;s Cove.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of her disappearance, not much more is really known as to how she vanished and who might have taken her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123762</link>
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		<title>Vegas Hookers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by author Jay Rankin. His debut book Under The Neon Sky takes us behind the glitz and glamor of Las Vegas. You can read my review here - Simon  
 
By Jay Rankin
To be honest, sex was everywhere. I was surrounded by all its possibilities. There were topless clubs, all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123753</link>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings Update – BNN Radio Sun Feb 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been another busy week in the search for Haleigh Cummings. We will be running our regular program on Sunday Feb 7 at 3pm central. The panel will be Simon and Jan Barrett, WSKY 93.3&#8217;s TJ Hart, the &#8216;Crime Doctor&#8217; Denny Griifin, and investigative journalist Levi Page.
There is plenty to talk about this week. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123761</link>
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		<title>Americas Cup – The Oldest Trophy In Sports Gets Stupid In A High Tech Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What should be the very pinnacle of Yacht racing, the Americas Cup, has lost its luster for many sailing fans. In fact I find it hard to believe that this travesty is being permitted to go ahead.
The &#8216;Deed Of Gift&#8217; that governs this wonderful event has been watered down again and again. Misinterpreted, various factions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123759</link>
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		<title>Confirmed: Haleigh&#8217;s Mom Failed Drug Test, Keeps Child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from TJ Hart - Simon
Rumors have been swirling all week that hearing was held early this week regarding the custody status of Ronald Cummings Jr., the young brother of missing 6-year-old Satsuma girl Haleigh Cummings. He is the son of Ronald Cummings Sr, who is now in jail on drug trafficking charges, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123758</link>
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		<title>3 Nabbed in Massachusetts ATM Skimming Ring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Police believe they may have uncovered an international ATM “skimming” ring responsible for stealing money from hundreds of local accounts. Izaylo Hristov, 28, of Ontario, Canada, a Bulgarian citizen, was arrested at an ATM in the Boston area along with Viadiclav Vladevo and Anton Venkov. Venkov had $99,100 in $20 bills in his car when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123722</link>
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		<title>Islamic radicalism blamed on &#8220;conservatism&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stupid definition of conservatism as &#8220;opposition to change&#8221; is still something of a reality-defying mantra among Leftists  &#8212; despite conservatives often being major agents of change  &#8212; from Benjamin Disraeli to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.  And if George Bush&#8217;s movement of American power into two countries of  the Middle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Biggest Religious Story Ever Ignored</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story carries the headline: France: Catholic Church Rejects Ban on Full-Face Veils 
Except the &#8220;Catholic Church&#8221; did no such thing. The Bishop in charge of &#8220;interreligious dialogue&#8221; in France made a statement, but his opinion is not the opinion of the Catholic church.
 “If we want Christian minorities in Muslim majority countries to enjoy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123756</link>
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		<title>Music Review: Extraordinary Measures Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, by Andrea Guerra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Though Italian composer Andrea Guerra has been composing for 20 years, his work may not be instantly recognizable to American audiences, as up until recently, the majority of his films have been Italian, though his more well-known credits include high-profile awards movies: Hotel Rwanda, The Pursuit of Happyness, and most recently Nine. With the upcoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Review: Creation - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, by Christopher Young</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Young is one of the few composers working today that is liable to be recognized by the average moviegoer. Long appreciated for the magic he can work with a horror movie score, Young has expanded his repertoire to include films of all genres, from the comedic The Man Who Knew Too Little to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123754</link>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings Update – Tommy Croslin Whines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is hot off the press. We have not had a chance to analyze it yet. This is a phone conversation starring Tommy Croslin. Tommy is obviously upset, he is also claiming that for some cigarettes he will sing to the cops!
Maybe the most revealing aspect of this conversation is the use of the &#8216;F” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123752</link>
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		<title>SKY Investigates: New Jail Tapes, Tommy Croslin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from TJ Hart - Jan Barret
BREAKING NEWS: New Audio from SJCO Jail Tommy Croslin
News Talk 97.3 the SKY Thursday received the recordings of 6 calls Misty Croslin recently made from the St. Johns Jail in St. Augustine, FL and the raw audio from Tommy Croslin Friday.
Tommy sounds tired and very upset at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123751</link>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings Update – A One On One With WSKY 97.3 TJ Hart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So much has unfolded in the seach for Haleigh Cummings in the past 72 hours that TJ and I decided to run another of our occasional one on one sessions.
When it comes to press coverage of the Haleigh Cummings case there is no doubt in my mind that TJ Hart is the &#8216;go to&#8217; guy. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123750</link>
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		<title>Maturity Model for Information Security Capability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had discussed in the previous articles that Information Security adoption by individual employees may be mapped to five motivational parameters namely,
1. Awareness, 2. Acceptance 3. Availability, 4. Mandate and 5. Inspiration.
Unlike the normal motivational models, the model suggested for visualization of this process for better understanding was a &#8220;Pentagon&#8221; where each of the five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Ways to Manage Your Online Social Media Reputation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
The Internet has made our personal and professional lives very transparent. We now live in the fishbowl. Despite what many will argue, your privacy is no longer fully in your control. Your online identity is also something that others can control, and you need to do your best to manage it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123721</link>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings Update – Ronald Cummings Needs More Boxer Shorts!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TJ Hart was kind enough to share the data he acquired today with me. Part of the &#8216;data dump&#8217; that Putnam County released today about the Haleigh Cummings case was a phone call from Ronald Cummings to his grandmother Annette Sykes (that is an assumption). Ronald seems much more concerned about only having two pairs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123748</link>
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		<title>SKY Investigates: Ron Cummings, Misty Croslin Calls from Jail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from TJ Hart. We have not had time to analyze the data, but it certainly is revealing. Misty whines about not having any new socks, and why doesn&#8217;t either Padilla or Cobra bail her out? We will have a more in-depth article soon, but we promised to publish the information as soon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DATA SECURITY BREACH AT SHELL PUTS ITS EMPLOYEES AT RISK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY ALFRED AND JOHN DONOVAN
Another major humiliation and security breach for Shell arising from our blog site royaldutchshellplc.com.   First we beat Shell to the top level domain name for Royal Dutch Shell Plc.  As a result, with Shell&#8217;s written approval, we process job applications and business proposals meant for Shell, dealing with them as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings – Jail House Tapes Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just talked with TJ Hart of WSKY 97.3, as I write this article he is sitting in the St. Augustine police complex waiting for them to burn the Jail house tapes onto DVD. The 4 minute clip that aired on Nancy Grace last night (in what seemed like an endless loop) was in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123744</link>
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		<title>Saint Aloysius Parish&#8230;reborn!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Part of Gray&#8217;s Ferry in Dixie!


Growing up in Gray’s Ferry had its great spiritual benefits. Living within a cluster of 3 parishes, all within walking distance made going to Sunday Mass an easily attainable ritual. With Saint Gabriel Church, King of Peace Church and Saint Aloysius Church all within the boundaries of Saint Gabriel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Aloysius Parish&#8230;reborn!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Part of Gray&#8217;s Ferry in Dixie!
  

Growing up in Gray’s Ferry had its great spiritual benefits. Living within a cluster of 3 parishes, all within walking distance made going to Sunday Mass an easily attainable ritual. With Saint Gabriel Church, King of Peace Church and Saint Aloysius Church all within the boundaries of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>419 Scams Double, Over $9 Billion in Profits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert


A recent study by Dutch investigation firm Ultrascan shows we are half as smart (or twice as dumb) as we were in 2008 as advanced fee scams doubled in losses to over $9 billion. 419 Advance Fee Fraud Statistics 2009 (PDF)


It is believed that while the scams are known to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporter&#8217;s Notes: Conversation with Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from TJ Hart - Simon
As the new charges were being handed down and the amounts increased for Ronald Cummings and Misty Croslin Wednesday, Frebruary 3, 2010, I spoke on the telephone with Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy and asked him about  the drug trafficking case involving Ron and Misty, the Haleigh Cummings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings – Inside The PCSO&#8217;s Inner Sanctum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has certainly been an interesting day. Once again the momentum in the case to resolve the disappearance is building. My good friend TJ Hart had the unique opportunity to get a look inside the PCSO&#8217;s HaLeigh center. He is the first journalist to be allowed access to this inner sanctum. You can read his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123740</link>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings Update: Father and Ex-Step Mom Face More Charges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from TJ Hart - Simon
Additional charges and raised bail amounts to two of the 5 arrested in Putnam County in January in a drug trafficking sting.
On February 3, 2010, arrest warrants were issued for the arrest of Ronald Lemyles Cummings and Misty Janette Croslin, according to the Putnam County Sheriff&#8217;s office.  These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JAIL TAPES: Misty and Tommy Croslin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from TJ Hart and his friends at News4Jax.com - Simon

JAIL VIDEO TOMMY CROSLIN CALL Courtesy of News4Jax.com
Jailhouse surveillance video released Wednesday by the St. Johns County Sheriff&#8217;s Office shows Misty Cummings talking with her mother during a video conference with tears in her eyes.
Misty Cummings, the last person to see missing 6-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SKY Investigates: Inside the PCSO &#8220;HaLeigh Room&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an interesting update from TJ Hart - Simon
The search for a missing Satsuma, FL has been underway for nearly a year. So far, no sign of the girl, but plenty of tips, interviews and evidence have been processed.
HaLeigh Cummings was last seen at her residence in the Hermit&#8217;s Cove area of Putnam County [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police Initiative Targets Home Invasions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
Detroit Police Department cracks down on home invasions across Detroit. There are few crimes as horrific as a home invasion. When a bad guy forces their way into your home and uses violence on your and your family to get what they want, all sense of security is gone. Apparently this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Criminal Hackers Buying and Selling Hacked Accounts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
Malicious software designed to gather usernames and passwords has been a boon for the criminal hacking community. Spyware as it’s commonly known records almost everything a user does on their PC. The most damaging spyware records all electronic communications via a web browser. That’s where the most damage can be done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Way to Deter New Major Al Qaeda Attack?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gary Hart and Warren Rudman headed a bi-partisan Defense Department  commission which presented its warning of a major Al Qaeda attack  pending in January, 2001, as Bush assumed the presidency.
The  report here citing the warning also mentions why it is almost impossible  to deter such attacks:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec02/senators_10-31.html

&#8220;Among  the most vulnerable areas: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caylee Anthony – Baez Misses The Big Date</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I recall it was four months ago that Jose Baez and his team tried to explain to judge Strickland that his client Casey Anthony was completely innocent. In fact Casey should be released immediately. The Judge offered some sage advice, provide this compelling information, and indeed an innocent young lady can walk free if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Bend The Healthcare Trend by Mark S. Gaunya And Jennifer A. Borislow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
This is a very timely book. There are few people today that live in the US and are not concerned about health-care. People are living longer, and costs are soaring. Even if you have a great job, and are earning large sums of money, health-care is still a major concern. For many years I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Unlimited Visability  by Jonathan Walden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imaginary Legal, Political, and Economic Forces That Construct the Fountainhead of Injustice&#8230;
and what We The People can do about it.
 
I have to confess, I read the press release for this book and just knew that I had to read it. I could feel a delicious political rant in the offing. I love good rants!
Jonathan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Murders At Crooked Creek by William Francis Burke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
As a reviewer I try very hard to not be a critic, however the more I get involved, the more that I do view books with a slightly critical eye. A good question is what makes a book outstanding? There are numerous criteria that can be used. It is hardly a formula, and what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama Slams Outsourcing of American Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to published reports, analysts both overseas and in the U.S. note that President Obama’s State of the Union statement about revoking tax breaks for companies outsourcing jobs could open a ‘Pandora’s box’ full of problems.
A survey by independent analysts in India, Asia Sentinel of industry officials, finds that the nature of outsourcing itself does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123709</link>
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		<title>Saint Blaise: Protect our Catholic Throats!</title>
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One
of the greatest things I remember about growing up in Gray’s Ferry was
how unashamedly Catholic we were in our Saint Gabriel days. Every
school day was in itself an exercise in our Catholic faith starting
with the prerequisite Catholic school uniform that was de rigueur in school.
February 3 always has a particular fondness for me as well. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Borrowing Our Way to Prosperity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democrats carped over the big spending of the Bush administration.&#160; (True conservatives did, too, by the way.)&#160; But when they got the reins, both the White House and Congress, Democrats made Republican spending look positively thrifty.
When they have lots of money, Democrats spend money on all sorts of government programs.&#160; And when we have less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 8 Worst Twitter Social Media Hacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
In the past year our use of Twitter has increased dramatically. And so has the criminal hacker’s attention to the opportunity to use it for illicit gain. 

Jacked Twitter Accounts:  Numerous Twitter (and Facebook) accounts including those of President Obama, Britney Spears, Fox News and others were taken over and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123714</link>
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		<title>Depressing News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just about all the news these days is bad:
The Taliban in Afghanistan have figured how to avoid harm from our troops and are gaining strength there.
The job market is unlikely to improve very much because our competitors pay far less to their workers and we have lost jobs overseas to them.
Obama is talking deficits now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Bullies: Toxic Coworkers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are toxic people in every environment – toxic family, toxic friends, toxic lovers and toxic coworkers.  If you don’t recognize and respond effectively to toxic, bullying coworkers they can make your life miserable, harass you, turn the rest of your team against you, scapegoat you and even get you fired.
For example, Jane is known [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/123711</link>
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		<title>The precarious State of the Union</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The President’s State of the Union (SoU) address last week had a  little something for everyone, contradictory policies, and not enough in  any single area to make a difference in the economy.
First, there was something for everyone.  Bank bailouts are suddenly  distasteful and the taxpayers need recompense for saving them; the  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venerable Pierre Toussaint&#8230;a tribute to American Catholic Black History!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Black Catholic Americans&#8230;great contributions to our faith.

Saint Patrick’s Cathedral is always a favorite destination for Catholics and other visitors to New York City. Most of the time, people spend their time in prayer and admiration of the various works of art that adorn the ornate Gothic Cathedral. Catholic are familiar with the tradition that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putnam Drug Bust: Who Is Donna Brock?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This in from TJ Hart - Jan Barrett
Nearly two weeks ago, undercover officers arrested five people in Putnam County for trafficking controlled prescription medications. Most notably among the five are Ronald Cummings, the father of missing 6-year-old Satsuma girl HaLeigh Cummings, and his ex-wife Misty Croslin.
Three others arrested in the sting are Misty&#8217;s brother Tommy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DO CATHOLIC COLLEGES CHANGE STUDENTS?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One could argue that secular colleges undermine religious faith, but per  the studies on which this article reports, Catholic students in  Catholic colleges are largely similarly affected by higher education.
As  one who has been saddened by the failure of the Catholic Church to  reform itself, honest reporting will hopefully shake loose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money DOES make you happy</title>
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Or so a large recent survey seems to show
Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-Being: Evidence from the U.S.A.
By Andrew J. Oswald and Stephen Wu
A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals’ subjective well-being. These are responses to questions—asked by survey interviewers or medical personnel—such as, &#8220;How happy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Continue the Siege on Gaza or Not?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ By Shimon Z. Klein
The siege on Gaza continues. Gaza has become an overcrowded prison - a boiling pressure cooker on the verge of exploding. Gaza is choked by Israel and now by Egypt as well. There is an element of “collective punishment” while many innocent Gaza Palestinians are living in severe poverty and in squalor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright cops vs kids, while the professionals stay in business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I came to the Philippines, I ripped my CD collection into MP3&#8217;s and brought most of my collection here on mp3 CD&#8217;s or on my hard drive. I had a fairly nice collection of &#8220;elevator music&#8221; (to use my son&#8217;s description), mainly because I worked in rural areas where it was easier to listen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning a Trip to Vegas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by author Jay Rankin. His debut book Under The Neon Sky takes us behind the glitz and glamor of Las Vegas. You can read my review here - Simon 
 
Be True to Your Desires and Needs.
As the doorman to the largest hotel in the world, I could open just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings Update – Radio Wrap Up For Jan/31</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I think it would be fair to say that it was another lively program. Or regular panel of Simon and Jan Barrett, Denny Griffin, TJ Hart, and Levi Page were in action.
I have to admit that TJ was on top form, the subject of missing children is not a humorous one, however every case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WINTER MUSIC FEST-LAKE OSPREY PLAZA -LAKEWOOD RANCH, FL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest article by John Cherry the author of Better Than Lennon, a book that explores who was the better musician John Lennon or Paul McCartney - Simon 

Wind and threatening weather may have hurt the attendance a bit at the event on Saturday, January 30th, but those who made it there were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: &#8220;Doubleback&#8221; by Libby Fischer Hellman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“DOUBLEBACK” marks the return of P. I. Georgia Davis as well as another very good book by Libby Fischer Hellman. It also unites Georgia and Ellie Foreman (An Eye For Murder and others) in a case that resonates for parents everywhere.
 
It is a morning like any other in June when Molly Messenger is kidnapped. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stunt Road – by Gregory Mose: Book Review</title>
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“Stunt Road” is a novel – almost a roman-a-clef –  which examines a fairly simple and straight-forward experience, what I called the ‘Oh-s**t!’ event. At the top of a steep, snowy mountain, a small child casually makes a snowball and starts it rolling – and then watches in absolute horror as the snowball gets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Identity Thief Loves Me (PTI)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
I have a very weird job. I explore aspects of society that people read about but would never consider exploring themselves. I go places where others may be led to because they didn’t know any better. And I like too expose the flaws in the system that make us vulnerable. Much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Identity Thief Loves Me (PTII)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
In “My Identity Thief Loves Me (PTI)&#8221; I brought you into my weird world of “research” into online dating scams. Here’s where I fell in love. I have been persued by “Kath Riss Green”. For whatever reason the scammers choose very WASPy names. But her picture was a hot Latina. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Premonitions?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    
Sunday, January 31, 2010
   
 	  	 Premonitions?
I don&#8217;t believe in ESP, but I do  take strong intuitions seriously.  They are not always correct, but I  suspect that they disclose things that we have either forgotten or not  noticed consciously, e.g. body language of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disruptive China and its Impact - Internal and External</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The title of the article could well be ‘China’s arrival as a superpower’ to ‘When did China arrive as a superpower’ if that actually has already happened, catching many of us (including global journalists and policy-makers) napping.  
‘Well, it was sort of expected but we never thought it could happen so fast’ is the usual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Rifqa Bary fudge the agreement?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even if Rifqa never goes back to live with her parents, she, as a Christian, needs to honor them. She needs to treat them with love and respect.  That's just a fact. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We Just Lost the Geek Vote&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama, who has overlooked various pork barrel spending projects placed into unrelated bills by the Congress, is reported to have decided to freeze the budget to NASA to prove he can cut the Federal Budget.
To put it bluntly, this means there is no money for the proposed Moon landing under his watch.
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		<title>&#8220;Turkeys voting for Christmas&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what the intellectual elite  think of working class conservative voters.  They think that voting Left is OBVIOUSLY in the best interests of the workers and cannot understand that the base of support for the GOP is mainly among the less affluent.  They think that working class people  are cutting their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings Update – Drugs, Drugs, And More Drugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was with a huge amount of humor that I read the latest Art Harris EXCLUSIVE , the title screams EXCLUSIVE: “Misty No Drug Dealer!” —Dad
This tabloid headline sounds great, you could put this one on the front page of the supermarket tabloids and make a killing. Obviously Misty Croslin does have some supporters, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings Update – Yet More Donna Brock&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it is clear that my articles concerning Donna Brock have reached some folks that do not want to have their name associated with her. I received a delightful email that included this quote:
I also do not give you permission to print any part of this.  I hope you understand how many people this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oprah Winfrey – Ruthless – Years Later</title>
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It was with a good deal of amusement that I read an article from the Chicago Sun Times that talked about the &#8217;shocking&#8217; new book by Kitty Kelly. Kitty is going to tell the world all about Oprah Winfrey. This is the &#8216;tell all&#8217; unauthorized, no holds barred, down and dirty look at this doyen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Trial from Manhattan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not bothered by our moving the trial of the 9/11 plotters out of  Manhattan.  The city is already jammed with traffic and such a well  publicized trial could offer the temptation to set off a bomb in the  area &#8212; not hard to do with all the delivery trucks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings And Others – BNN Radio Sun/Jan/31</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We will be running our regular radio program on Sunday Jan 31 at 3pm central. The major focus will be the events in both the Haleigh Cummings and Caylee Anthony cases.
It has been a busy week in both cases. The Putnam County &#8216;Adams Family&#8217; continues to take advantage of the &#8216;all expenses paid&#8217; vacation that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dangerous Tony Blair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seeing Tony Blair yesterday at the Iraq war enquiry made me realise just how good a politician he was – surely the best communicator of modern times and intellectually robust as well. But, and it’s a massive but, his driving force was (and is) utterly wrong. It wasn’t socialism, or Europeanism, or Anglo-Americanism or any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings Update: Jailed Father of Missing Satsuma Girl Transferred to Putnam Co.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from TJ Hart. If I was a gambling man I would say that Putnam County are upping the ante again. Obviously another layer of pressure is being applied. Will Tommy be the weakest link? Simon
News Talk 97.3 The Sky has learned that Ronald Cummings, the father of missing 6-year-old Satsuma girl Haleigh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When in Rome - Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The title of this film is not the only idiom you will find. WHEN IN ROME uses pretty much every common element from the romantic comedy vernacular with no apologies. But, honestly, that is what it needed to succeed. Romantic comedies have a hard time meeting every ones theatrical needs. We are all different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of Democracy in Public Housing  &#8212; and the U.S. genererally!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I lived happily in public housing for three years (430 W.  125th  St. in lower West Harlem) when we were graduate students.  We had  been given the privilege of bypassing the waiting list by a program  designed to desegregate our project (later discontinued because of this  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Twitterian Analysis Of The State Of The Union 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama certainly looks down his nose in a condescending manner. Why do I hear &#8220;KNEEELLLLLLLLL BEFORE ZOD!!!&#8221; from Superman II in my ear?
In opening the State of Union, Obama mentioned the Speaker of the House, the Vice President and the American people. What, no acknowledgement of illegal aliens? Obama apparently is not as tolerant as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election Violence in the Philippines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, we were stopped at a checkpoint while driving to the provincial capital for a doctor&#8217;s appointment.
Nothing new about that: We had a lot of checkpoints awhile back, when there was a move to find the last few NPA members who hadn&#8217;t come in from the cold and become normal &#8220;militant&#8221; activists.
But this checkpoint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Left Wing Conspiracy versus Hillary and Her Supporters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 1970&#8217;s, Jimmy Carter was unlucky. He seemed to have a tin ear and do nothing right, and so Teddy Kennedy decided to rescue the party and run against him. Americans who saw the huge increase in gasoline prices, a sour economy, inflation that ate their savings, and mortgage rates of 12 percent, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings Update – More On The Donna Brock Connection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim Miller has been fighting tooth and nail to prevent the Caylee Anthony defense from obtaining any of Texas Equusearch&#8217;s records. That battle is still raging. It seems likely that nothing will be resolved anytime soon. I have my own theories about Jose Baez, Andrea (I have never lost a capital case) Lyons, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review:  Busting Loose &#8212; Cancer Survivors Tell You What Your Doctor Won’t by Cheryl Swanson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to decide how to start a review about this wonderful book. It is part memoir, chronicling the author’s journey through one of the worst nightmares a woman can face and part how-to: How to face the breast cancer from the first diagnosis, through finding the right doctor and the right treatment, to how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wiseman talks about his new documentary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new documentary from veteran filmmaker Frederick Wiseman pirouettes into theaters January 29th.  “La Danse - Le ballet de l&#8217;Opéra de Paris” follows the production of seven ballets by the Paris Opera Ballet from rehearsal to planning to funding.
Click below to hear my interview with Wiseman.
LISTEN
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		<title>Book Review: The Wisdom Tree And The Red Swing  by Carol L. MacAllister</title>
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Thinking Outside The Box For Preteens
Our modern world is a wondrous place for a child to grow up in, there is so much to see, do, and learn. Alas it is also a world of the unexpected, a world where not everything is positive and fulfilling.
If you go into the Self Help section of any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Education&#8230;tools for a lifetime!</title>
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Last week I noticed there was a pen collector’s convention that was held in Philadelphia. In the era of Blackberries, personal digital communicators, smart phones and Kindles competing with I Pads for market share and attention…the humble pen is often viewed as an antiquated technology in a world of glitzy gadgets. Whenever I think about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving One Weekend In Vegas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by author Jay Rankin. His debut book Under The Neon Sky takes us behind the glitz and glamor of Las Vegas. You can read my review here - Simon 
 
I wrote a book titled, Under the Neon Sky, about my job at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What fun! HNN has just run a &#8220;special&#8221; denying that Fascism/Nazism was Leftist!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is Jonah Goldberg&#8217;s book that has got them steamed  &#8212; and steamed is the word.  Most of the &#8220;critique&#8221; is little more than abuse, liberally leavened with unsupported assertions.   What has got them steamed is that a recognition of the philosophical affinities between historical Fascism and modern &#8220;liberalism&#8221; has become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bargain Buying Moves Our Jobs Overseas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the major reasons that American jobs are in shorter supply is  that more and more Americans are buying from our discount stores &#8212;  large chains such as Target, Kmart, Cosgo, Walmart and the smaller 99¢  ones.  These in turn are buying their products from the cheapest  possible sources [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Body Found Believed to Be Aveion Malik Lewis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can’t begin to tell everyone how much it is hurting me right now to write this article but I feel this child deserves his name out here so that we all won’t forget him. If what I am reading tonight is true my heart is breaking.
I went to bed early tonight and as you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haleigh Cummings – The Donna Brock Connection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was somewhat surprised to see Donna Brock caught up in last weeks sweep of the folks involved in the Haleigh Cummings case. Donna Brock for those of you not familiar with the name was the &#8216;hired gun&#8217; financed by Tim Miller of Texas Equusearch to befriend Misty Croslin and get the real story.
Why Tim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: Doc Martin Series 3 </title>
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This DVD set stars Martin Clunes as the tactless, self-centered and uptight doctor that the town has to put up with because he is the only doctor in town. He was once a very successful London surgeon but not he is a general practitioner in the idyllic Cornish fishing village of Portwenn. The man has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: The Evelyn Waugh Collection </title>
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This DVD set features a star-studded collection dramatizing two of Evelyn Waugh’s darkly humorous novels. Evelyn Waugh took an uttering aim at the foibles of British society. The Oscar-nominated A Handful of Dust  and Scoop  has a cast including Kristin Scott Thomas in her breakthrough role, Alec Guinness, Rupert Graves, Stephen Fry, Michael [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: A Mind To Kill Series 1 </title>
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A Mind To Kill Series 1 comes in a 3 Volume Boxed set with 6 feature length mystery episodes running time of approximately 596 minutes total. It does contain nudity and some graphic scenes.
This DVD Set is made available to US audiences for the first time and debuts on February 2, 2010. It features intricate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venerable Pope John-Paul II&#8230;Sainthood NOW!</title>
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Yesterday, the world was made aware of yet another reason that Venerable Pope John-Paul II should be advanced to the altars. Msgr. Slawomir Oder, in his book, Why A Saint? revealed spiritual aspects of the late Pope’s spiritual life previously unknown. Namely, John-Paul practiced acts of penitence and self denial in his pursuit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burglaries Up; Many While People Are Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Wichita, Kansas they are facing a huge up tick in burglaries. Generally, crimes of this nature rise when there is a financial crisis, unemployment, gangs and drug activity. Police there have recorded 2,839 burglaries last year, a 10.2 percent increase over the same period the year before.
Of the 2,839 burglaries, 384 — or 13.5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The White Shoe Gang</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my first year of studies at Union Theological Seminary (1956-7), I  spent two evenings a week working with a small group of kids (about a  dozen) at the Manhattanville Community Center in lower West Harlem &#8212;  just down the street from the 26th Precinct police station.
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